Tairawhiti Museum Research Centre

Barry was an early Gisborne cordial manufacturer 1890-1897, and later managing director, 1897-1923, of Gisborne Brewery for which he had begun his career as a driver.

A child of one of the first families to settle in 1871 in the new township of Gisborne where her father was a jeweller, Mary Blair was also one of the first telephone girls, 1897, in the town.

The Cook County Council administered a large portion of the East Coast, except the Borough of Gisborne, from 1877 to 1893 when Waiapu County was formed.

The Association was founded by a private group to provide data for development planning, and received much help from government departments.

These local administrative papers of the Trust are from the offices of its solicitors. Besides routine legal papers, they include a memorandum by Lt-Col. R.F.

A collection of newspaper cuttings on Maori and early colonial subjects, including 'My life story' written by J.W.

The papers are almost wholly in Maori and appear to have belonged to an Anglican Maori priest of Ruatoria, Waiapu.

The Savage Club was a men's organisation which promoted good fellowship through an atmosphere of 'bohemianism'.

Goffe was a Maori interpreter in the Government Service and a land purchase officer. In later years he and his wife became Justices of the Peace.

Maori whakapapa (genealogies) for the East Coast compiled between ca 1875 and 1900, with later additions, extracted and copied from MS. A counterpart to genealogies compiled in Gisborne by Edward Fran

Sir Robert Hall retired to New Zealand after a career in the African Colonial Service culminating in the governorship of Sierra Leone, and followed by county local body work in the United Kingdom.

Hurrey was a settler at Makaraka, west of Gisborne, in the 1880s, and a flour-miller in the 1890s. The papers consist mainly of cash books and ledgers (2), 1879-1898, the last entries relating to Wha

Kempthorne came to teach at the Waerenga-a-hika Mission School, 1857-1860.

Lysnar was born in Auckland in 1867, and practised as a solicitor on his own account in Gisborne from 1892. He was a member of the Gisborne Borough Council, being Mayor, 1908-1911.

Mackay, a journalist, was born in Invercargill and worked for the 'Southland News' 1902-1907, before going to Wellington as a member of the staff of the 'Dominion', which he represented in the Parliam

The collection was discovered in the Gisborne Army Hall and includes some parade states and muster rolls of equipment and horses for the volunteers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

This entry is a revision of NRAM B 581 Historical Notes Margaret Home Sievwright, prominent in the suffrage campaign, was one of the founders of the National Council of Women, and its President 1901

The records consist of the minute book of the Council of Waiapu Women, the original name of the Gisborne Branch, 1901-1905; the minute book of the Gisborne Branch, 1917-1928; a photocopy of the procee

The firm was founded in Gisborne about 1891 by two sons of William Lee Rees (1836-1912), the Auckland politician and land settlement promoter. In 1930 the firm was known as Rees, Bright, Wauchop and

Todd came to Dunedin in the 'Nelson' about 1882 and in 1891 became a pioneer leaseholder in the upper Waihora Valley (Te Karaka). By 1899 he was occupying circa 700 hectares and had his own woolshed.